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Diwali wishes card AI prompt — artwork with room for your words

Not a portrait. This is the card you send to forty people on WhatsApp, so it has to survive a thumbnail and leave space for your own words. The prompt deliberately generates no text at all. Free for ChatGPT & Gemini.

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Create a vertical 4:5 Diwali greeting card illustration. Do not render any text, lettering, numbers or characters anywhere in the image. Compose a warm, elegant Diwali scene: a row of lit clay oil lamps along the lower third, a softly glowing marigold and mango-leaf toran across the top, and a dark, richly coloured background in deep maroon, indigo or midnight blue with subtle gold rangoli geometry fading into it. Add a scatter of small warm bokeh lights in the upper background for depth. Leave a clean, uncluttered horizontal band across the vertical centre of the image, roughly one third of the total height, where the background is simple and evenly toned. This band is for a greeting to be typed over afterwards, so keep it free of lamps, flowers, pattern and bright highlights, and make sure it contrasts clearly with both light and dark text. Render each diya flame individually and correctly: a single steady teardrop per wick, warm core, slight blue base. Do not duplicate, merge or float the flames. Keep the design readable at a small size. Use a few large, clear shapes rather than many small ones, strong tonal contrast between the lit and unlit areas, and no fine detail that would disappear at thumbnail scale. Rich festive colour, warm golden lighting, elegant and uncluttered, print-quality illustration, high resolution. NEGATIVE PROMPT any text, lettering, words, letters, numbers, calligraphy, watermark, logo, signature, misspelt text, garbled characters, busy composition, cluttered design, tiny unreadable detail, low contrast, muddy colours, floating flame, doubled flame, malformed diya, human faces, hands

About this prompt

This is the one prompt in the Diwali set that is not a portrait, and it is a different design problem. A greeting card gets judged at about two hundred pixels wide in a WhatsApp list, and it has to carry words that are not yours to generate.

So the prompt does two unusual things. It asks for no text whatsoever — image models still render lettering unreliably, and a card reading “Happy Diwail” sent to forty people is worse than sending nothing. And it reserves a clean horizontal band across the centre, evenly toned and free of pattern, so you can type your greeting over it afterwards in any phone photo editor.

That also makes the card reusable. Because the words go on last, the same artwork can go out with a different name on it for each person without regenerating anything.

It is written for 4:5, the tallest frame that shows uncropped on the Instagram grid and a comfortable shape for a WhatsApp forward. Unlike the rest of the set this one needs no uploaded photo, so it works in text-to-image mode in ChatGPT, Google Gemini or Nano Banana.

How to use it

Tap Copy prompt above.
Open ChatGPT, Google Gemini or Nano Banana in ordinary text-to-image mode and paste it. No photograph needed for this one.
Generate at the ratio named in the prompt.
Re-run once or twice — the first result is rarely the best one.

The three ways this goes wrong

It writes text anyway. Models often slip a garbled word in despite being told not to, usually along the top or bottom edge. Check the whole frame before you send it, and re-run if anything has crept in — a misspelt greeting is the one failure everybody notices.
The centre band fills up. If lamps, flowers or pattern drift into the middle third there is nowhere for your greeting to sit. Re-run, and if it keeps happening say the central third must be plain background at the end of the prompt.
It falls apart at thumbnail size. Fine detail that looks lovely at full size turns to mush at two hundred pixels wide. Shrink it on your phone before sending. If you cannot read the shape of it, re-run and ask for fewer, larger elements.

Tips for the best result

Do not let it write the greeting. Image models still render text unreliably, and a card that says "Happy Diwail" is worse than no card at all. The prompt asks for an empty band instead, and you type over it afterwards.
Check it at thumbnail size. This is the one image here that gets judged at about 200 pixels wide in a WhatsApp list. Shrink it on your phone before you send it — if the design falls apart, it is too busy.
One card, many names. Because the greeting is added afterwards rather than generated, the same artwork can go out personalised without regenerating anything.

The rest of the Diwali set are portraits: the diya close-up, the saree look, the kurta outfit, the couple photo and the rangoli doorway. All six are in the Diwali AI photo editing prompts roundup.

Frequently asked questions.

What is the Diwali wishes card AI prompt?

It is a copy-paste AI image prompt that produces a 4:5 Diwali greeting card illustration with lamps, a toran and a dark festive background, and a deliberately empty band across the centre for you to type your own greeting over afterwards. It needs no photograph of you.

Why does the prompt refuse to generate the greeting text?

Because image models still render lettering unreliably, and a card that says Happy Diwail sent to forty people is worse than sending nothing at all. Generating clean artwork and typing the words over it yourself in any phone photo editor gives correct spelling every time, and it lets you send the same card with a different name on it for each person.

What size should a Diwali card be?

This prompt uses 4:5 vertical, which is the tallest frame the Instagram grid shows without cropping and a comfortable shape for a WhatsApp forward. The more important point is that it will be seen small, so the design uses a few large shapes and strong contrast rather than fine detail that disappears at thumbnail size.

Do I need to upload a photo for this one?

No. This is the only prompt in the Diwali set that needs no photograph, because there is no face in it. You can run it in ordinary text-to-image mode in ChatGPT, Google Gemini or Nano Banana.

Is the Diwali card prompt free?

Yes, the prompt is free to copy and use. You only need an AI image tool such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini or Nano Banana. There is nothing to buy.

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